THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 5, 1937.
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GERMANY'S ARGUMENT FOR COLONIES
Berlin, To-day.
In connection with Herr Hit: ler's renewed expression of Germany's colonial claims, made
at the harvest thanksgiving ser- vice in Lower Saxony, the semi-
DEUTSCHLAND RETURNS TO
TOKYO CONTROVERSY
Berlin, To-day. - *
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The complete international isolation of Japan is stressed by the "Frankfurter-Zeitung" in the course of an article surveying the situation in the Far East.
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The bombing of Nanking and other cities, says the paper, has aroused profound indignation Ithroughout the world and has found expression in Idemands for boycott of Japan and other economic
penalties.
In addition to the humanitarian aspect of the question, there is growing uneasiness lest Japan's
AMERICAN LEGION
ascendency over China may spell ON PILGRIMAGE and American interests. TO FRANCE
incalculable damage for European
BOYCOTT CHANGES
- Paris, To-day.
on
A batch of 300 members of the American Legion arrived at Cher- The paper doubts whether eco-
board the nomic penalties would succeed in bourg yesterday forcing Japan to her knees, but Europa and the Laconia.
Under the command of General emphasises that such measures would unquestionably add to the Davis and General Harbord, they are part of the 3,500 American already serious difficulties with.
Legionaries who are making a which Japan has to contend.
pilgrimage to France to celebrate Hence an acute controversy is the twentieth ann versary of the going on in Tokyo between repre-entry of the United States into the sentatives of militarist Imperialism Great War.
MEDITERRANEAN already serious
→
Berlin To-day.
An announcement says that the pocket battleship Deutschland and the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla will sail for the Iberian Peninsula to- day (Tuesday) and to-morrow to relieve German naval units eruis- ing in Spanish waters-Trans- Ocean
official "Deutsche Diplomatisch short-sighted and imprudent policy Politische Korrespondenz" writes: that "it is necessary to refute for the nations to constantly stress
and advocates of policy.
more moderate
ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDE
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The paper opines that the latter would seem to have obtained the
various EITONEOUS conceptions their good will and their readiness upper hand in the past few days,
The men were given an enthus- iastic reception when they dis- embarked at Cherbourg. Ocean.c
Trans-
ITALY'S REPLY
prevailing abroad on the sub-to put an end to injustices; while but says that it is impossible to TO INVITATION
ject."
in
on the other hand the only satisfac-foretell whether their victory will After joining issue with those tory solution is carefully avoided be definite. foreign circles which deny the in practice in the very case
Much, in the paper's view, will economic value for Germany of co-which logic and political reason depend on the Japanese estimate of lonies, a view which the paper con-alike demand that reparation for siders to be refuted by its inherent past injustice be made. lack of logic, the "Korrespondenz” says that Germany's claim also has an ethical and legal basis.
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HEADS IN SAND?
The paper concludes. that it It is not as if Germany's colonies would be advisable for all concern- had been taken from her because led, and in view of the many errors Germany lost the Great War.
"FOURTEEN POINTS”
Anglo-Saxon determination to take
action-Trans-Ocean.
DUNDEE WIN BY ODD GOAL
London, To-day.
TO CONFERENCE
Rome, To-day.
The Italian reply to the joint Anglo-French invitation to at- tend a three-Power conference ̈ on Spain, will be presented later in the week.
The reply is not expected to re- ject the invitation outright but is likely to make considerable reser- vations, and it is probable that an extension of the invitation to Ger- many will be demanded.
consultations Meanwhile,
committed during the years follow- ing the War, to envisage the colon- ial question in all its aspects and not to nourish the illusion that Playing at home in a First Divi- are non-existents, simply sion Scottish League football match The paper recalls that on the realities contrary the victorious Powers in because one chooses to ignore them. yesterday, Dundee beat. Third Lanark Italy with the German Governm
by the odd goal in three-Reuter
1918 recoiled from naked annexa- tion of the German colonies in view of the impression created by Presi
dent Wilson's Fourteen Points.
In order, however, to arrive at the same result by different means, they introduced the notion of "man- dates", which they sought to justi- fy by the same atrocity campaign that had been systematically car- ried on against Germany during the War.
MANDATES TRANSITORY
It is evident, the paper says, that Germany should desire retrial of the case in order to regain posses- sion of property of which she had been deprived under false pre- tences.
Her desire is all the more justi- fied since the idea of mandates in itself implies something transitory, by contrast with a definite state of Allaire,
It would, says the paper, be a
Trans-Ocean.:
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are in progress.-Reuter
recently on the arrival of the new Swedish Minister to China:
by